Brussels, 23/11/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 23 November, the French minister, Michel Sapin, called for the application of the fourth European directive (849/2015) against money laundering and the financing of terrorism to be speeded up “considerably”. By request of France, the Ecofin Council will take stock of the implementation of this legislative text in December.
This directive, which was formally adopted in the spring, is to be applied in the European Union from 2017. It...